ssh -X remote does not work due to problem with xauth

[Christoph Moench-Tegeder]

## Niclas Zeising (zeising+freebsd at daemonic.se):

> > Well, now that I thought about it: most Linux distributions build their
> > X server with "--enable-xcsecurity" in the configure flags. FreeBSD
> > does not set that flag, as far as I can see. Next question: why?
> > 
> 
> Hi!
> It could be because of backwards compatibility, or, because at least I 
> wasn't really aware of that flag.

I'd say "everyone else uses that flag, so we should, too". And that
flag isn't really new, e.g. Redhat re-enabled it in 2013:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1620

> Is it for xserver or some other package?

That would be x11-servers/xorg-server, yes.

> If you have time, please try it out and see what happens.  Usually you 
> can add it to CONFIGURE_ARGS= in the ports makefile and recompile the 
> port.  I'm occupied elsewhere currently, but if I remember I'll look 
> into it as well.

I'll try that tomorrow or saturday.

Regards,
Christoph

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